OK so in this section I will make some honorable mentions to some of the worst design practices that
people still use a lot today.
And I'll try to make this video Oddly enough so you understand what I'm talking about.
So number seven not setting a coherent color palette and using a random PowerPoint colors.
Once again all colors do not fit together.
There are millions of possible colors on a computer screen.
So pay attention to colors.
Also be consistent throughout your video and use only the colors from your color palette and about that.
Try to use only two or three main colors and maybe another two or three as extra colors when you need
them.
Number six using too much text in your visuals.
This applies to both PowerPoint videos and PowerPoint presentations.
Actually to most of design just avoid text as much as possible and only use it when it's absolutely
necessary.
Number five using the most common fonts like Colibri Aeriel.
Times New Roman etc. fonts are just like colors.
There are thousands of them.
So take your time and make your research to find fonts that will fit well with their video.
Number four using the most cheesy PowerPoint animations.
Basically here's which ones to avoid.
All those that create shapes like blinds and box checkerboard circle diamond plus random bars and wedge
and those that don't make any sense.
So it will center resolve.
Basics will boomerang.
Bounce curve up fort and spiral in.
So this list of animations that you should not do is my personal list because I literally haven't found
any use for them in a way that things still look beautiful in the final video.
Number three.
So now we're in the top three using the most awkward PowerPoint transitions just like for the animations.
Here's a list of slide transitions that I really don't know what to do about when it comes to video
or random bars fall over wind crush airplane and origami.
All the others.
There might be a use for them so I know it's tempting but try to avoid all the overly complex and cheesy
stuff.
It looks impressive on PowerPoint but honestly in videos things are usually simple and neat.
Number two using the horrible weird white aliens in your visuals or not White there can be of any color.
All right.
So these things are so common on the Internet and so horrible at the same time that all my.
Please just forget about them forget about them.
This is the most obvious stock kind of content out there that is almost like like vomiting.
And it's the same for all the colorful to the human slight.
This guy and this girl and then they're walking and smiling and waving.
Oh boy.
Please don't you that.
That's been so much overused these days when people attempt to make explainer videos using these things.
I assure you that many viewers just stop the video and go away.
These things don't catch people's attention and they are just too overused.
So your video will get sunk in the mass of all other videos which are using them.
If you want to stand out create your own concept your own design and be professional.
This mix of anime and cartoon stuff really doesn't leave a good impression.
All right so number one and the winner is using stock images.
So when you're browsing for images on the internet you'll find many websites like Shutterstock etc that
propose you to be a subscription and get access to many images photos and illustrations of all kinds.
And have you seen this business guy pointing his finger on the weird transparent chart where something
is growing.
Or or again.
These aliens also doing some business growth right or this smiling business people working on an outdated
business plan that will fail anyway.
Or Yet this aviator or rocket kid right.
Whatever.
I'm pretty sure a lot of you have encountered this future.
Elon Musk on the Internet and to find all these images on the first page I just typed.
Success business on Google Images see Google Images is probably the worst.
So here's the thing.
When you start doing some design you feel attracted to things then you start to use them.
So you start to search more and more for them and eventually at some point you develop the ability to
bought stock pictures and you become disgusted by them.
Trust me I am spotting so many stock pictures in random places on the internet.
I just can't even.
Anyway if you don't listen to my advice now well you'll probably go through that period from discovery
to heavy usage to disgust with stock pictures and then you really try to find unique ones.
So I don't say that you can't find good stock pictures on the internet to use for your designs.
It's just that you have to search extensively because if you pick some pictures that you find on Google
or on the most famous web sites using the most common keywords.
Chances are you will land on these kind of cringing too obvious over used stock pictures.
So try to find some original ones and those that convey good emotions.
They shouldn't be too obvious.
It's not because you're talking about a business plan that you need to show some hands charts and a
big title on the paper saying business plan right.
So be more creative than that.